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The 10th Annual BlackStar Film Festival , which took place in Philadelphia and online from August 3-8, could not have been timelier. After nearly 18
Premiering at Sundance, going on to open Hot Docs, and now set to air on POV October 12, Nairobi-based director Sam Soko’s Softie is both
The digital edition of Getting Real ‘20 has underscored the driving themes—”Access. Power. Possibility.”—by serving up riveting conversations from
"Arthur Pratt. Everybody was telling me, if I was looking for a filmmaker in Sierra Leone, go meet with Arthur Pratt," says Banker White from his
By Carina Rubin Asked to write a zeitgeist piece on documentary filmmaking in South Africa, I readily agreed. I am a South African citizen, born in
Last December, A Walk to Beautiful won the IDA Award for Best Feature Documentary. Directed by Mary Olive Smith and co-directed by Amy Bucher, Walk
It is one of the largest film festivals in Africa. It requires a visa to travel there, as well as a vaccination for yellow fever. You will also need
Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony , a film about music’s role in the long struggle for freedom in South Africa, melted the hearts of
During the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African continent, and the Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of